Susan Owens
Author
Publisher
Thames and Hudson
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
England has long built its sense of self on visions of its past. What does it mean for medieval writers to summon King Arthur from the post-Roman fog; for William Morris to resurrect the skills of the medieval workshop and Julia Margaret Cameron to portray the Arthurian court with her Victorian camera; or for Yinka Shonibare in the final years of the twentieth century to visualize a Black Victorian dandy? 00By exploring the imaginations of successive...
Author
Publisher
Thames and Hudson
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When we look at the landscape, what do we see? Do we experience the view over a valley or dappled sunlight on a path in the same way as those who were there before us? We have altered the countryside in innumerable ways over the last thousand years, and never more so than in the last hundred. How are these changes reflected in - and affected by - art and literature?0English landscape painting is often said to be an 18th-century invention. But when...
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